# Advanced move and rename?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 11, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307 "2006-05-11T22:56:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![cdysthe](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@cdysthe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cdysthe)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307/1 "2006-05-11T22:56:50Z")

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Hi,

I really like mp3tag as a masstagger. It's simply the best. However, what I also would like to do is move files in a systematic way based on their tags. Let's say I have mp3 titled "Money" by artist "Pink Floyd" from the album "Dark Side of the Moon", and the track number is "5". What I would like to do is not only move the file to another directory, but move it to a directory named "Pink Floyd" which has a subdirectory based on the album tag, namely "Dark Side of the Moon". Finally I would like the tile renamed to something like "5. Money.mp3". This way I could use mp3tag to maintains a library and not have all my mp3's in one directory.

I am quite sure this is not currently possible in mp3tag, but I hope I am wrong! 🙂

//C

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307/2 "2006-05-12T02:59:26Z")

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Well, you could use the ![:mt_ttf:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/922db76db5d45b2e558d10f3d8c25fb8bc04fd27.png ":mt\_ttf:") Tag-Filename conversion for that and then delete the remaining empty directories.

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### Author: ![cdysthe](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@cdysthe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cdysthe)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307/3 "2006-05-12T11:44:41Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Well, you could use the ![:mt_ttf:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/922db76db5d45b2e558d10f3d8c25fb8bc04fd27.png ":mt\_ttf:") Tag-Filename conversion for that and then delete the remaining empty directories.
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I'm not sure I understand. Sorry. Are you saying that mp3tag can make directories using the Tag-Filename conversion, or? I now have all my mp3's in one directory. What I want is to have them sorted in a file tree with an Artist folder on top, then an album folder, and finally the songs. Is that possible without manually creating all the directories (which would take days with a lot of mp3 albums).

//C

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307/4 "2006-05-12T14:17:42Z")

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Of course it is, use something like **%artist%\%album%$num(%track%,2) %title%** or whatever fits your needs.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-move-and-rename/3307/5 "2026-02-09T12:19:44Z")

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